Mildred Loving R.I.P.
Mildred Loving died on 2 May at her home in Virginia. She achieved notoriety in 1967 when her groundbreaking case - Loving v Virginia - resulted in the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment in which it held that miscegenation laws prohibited inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional. For more on the case, and on Mildred Loving, see this Obituary in the New York Times
Labels: Loving v Virginia, Mildred Loving, US Constitution
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